Economist: American men have become less 'marriageable'

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>Economist: American men have become less 'marriageable'

>The decline of manufacturing jobs across the U.S. has hollowed out communities and depressed the working classes across broad swathes of the country, but it has also had an unexpected social side effect: fewer marriages.

>That's the conclusion of economist David Dorn of the University of Zurich, who wrote a paper with colleagues David Autor and Gordon Hanson, titled "When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market-Value of Men."

>Like other social scientists have, the team noted "a steep decline in the prevalence of marriage among young adults, and a sharp rise in the fraction of children born to unmarried mothers or living in single-headed households." They expected that "a potential contributor to both phenomena is the declining labor-market opportunities faced by males, which make them less valuable as marital partners."

>Indeed, they found that "trade shocks to manufacturing industries have particularly negative impacts on the labor market prospects of men and degrade their marriage-market value along multiple dimensions."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/economist-decline-of-manufacturing-made-us-men-less-marriageable.html

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Sounds to me like men need to abandon blue collar jobs, go to college, get degrees, and climb the corporate ladder to secure well-paying careers that will make them marriageable to women.

Follow this guy's lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvIBo4z2vg

He was probably a blue collar slob, but then he climbed the corporate ladder and secured a well-paying career so he could get a wife and an NYC apartment.

It's time for men too put down the video games, stop hanging out with their "bros" drinking all the time, and step their game up.